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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020`You`d be crazy not to read this book` The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyFrom the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old WaysIn Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland`s glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet`s past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice and haunting in its implications, Underland is a work of huge range and power, and a remarkable new chapter in Macfarlane`s long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart.SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020 `Macfarlane has invented a new kind of book, really a new genre entirely` The Irish Times`He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation` Wall Street Journal `Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be` Observer on The Old Ways`Irradiated by a profound sense of wonder… Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly` Independent on Landmarks`It sets the imagination tingling…like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems` The Sunday Times on The Old Ways